PURPOSE:
Unfortunately the lore only states how to destroy a combat pet using only blunt strikes, yet completely ignoring things such as armor-piercing attacks, boomsteel attacks using a sharp weapon, or merely harsh strikes with any sharp weaponry, capable of inflicting enough kinetic force regardless. This aims to provide a clear way of handling these creatures without any confusion or thoughts of them being completely immune to anything (i.e sliced in half by carbarum) unless they're slapped twice by a hammer. OLD LORE:
Servants & Pets
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Commonplace within workshops and the homes of those affluent in the clockwork artifice of Animatii are servants, drones, and clockwork critters which serve a variety of different purposes, defined in the 2nd to 4th tiers of Automata. In the case of critters, able to be made around the size of a Golden Retriever at the largest, they may take a freeform design of one’s choosing within reason, such as spiders which help weave clothing, messenger birds, companions such as rats, or metallic dogs to help carry objects about. Tier 3 Pets abide by all of LoTC’s rules on pets in combat, should they be used for such, and should their vessels or tubing be cut they would bleed out within [5] emotes, with their limbs and components able to be destroyed in [2] blunt strikes. Animatii mounts such as horses are also included in this tier, their components requiring [3] blunt strikes to destroy and [8] emotes to bleed out, and may only be used in any way which a mundane horse would be allowed to in combat.
NPC servants, such as humanoid automatons or sapient work benches, are entirely benign and non-combative in nature. They may be used as butlers to make or ferry food around one’s home, NPC crew on a naval ship, and other similarly flavorful purposes.
- Both Servants & Pets are unable to transfer information between owners, or be used to metagame whatsoever.
- Tier 3 Animii companions follow all rules for pets in combat, and may not exceed the size of a Golden Retriever. They are relatively fragile, owing to their smaller size and more primitive minds, and will otherwise act much as a mundane critter would.
- One cannot use many multiples of a pet or mount to accomplish a feat that would require Smoggers to perform, such as moving a colossal house with a horde of Animatii buffalo.
NEW LORE:
Servants & Pets
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Commonplace within workshops and the homes of those affluent in the clockwork artifice of Animatii are servants, drones, and clockwork critters which serve a variety of different purposes, defined in the 2nd to 4th tiers of Automata. In the case of critters, able to be made around the size of a Golden Retriever at the largest, they may take a freeform design of one’s choosing within reason, such as spiders which help weave clothing, messenger birds, companions such as rats, or metallic dogs to help carry objects about. Tier 3 Pets abide by all of LoTC’s rules on pets in combat, should they be used for such, and should their vessels or tubing be cut they would bleed out within [5] emotes, with their limbs and components able to be destroyed in [2] blunt strikes, or [4] harsh slashing strikes. Animatii mounts such as horses are also included in this tier, their components requiring [3] blunt strikes to destroy, or [6] harsh slashing strikes, and [5] emotes to bleed out, and may only be used in any way which a mundane horse would be allowed to in combat.
NPC servants, such as humanoid automatons or sapient work benches, are entirely benign and non-combative in nature. They may be used as butlers to make or ferry food around one’s home, NPC crew on a naval ship, and other similarly flavorful purposes.
- Both Servants & Pets are unable to transfer information between owners, or be used to metagame whatsoever.
- Tier 3 Animii companions follow all rules for pets in combat, and may not exceed the size of a Golden Retriever. They are relatively fragile, owing to their smaller size and more primitive minds, and will otherwise act much as a mundane critter would.
- One cannot use many multiples of a pet or mount to accomplish a feat that would require Smoggers to perform, such as moving a colossal house with a horde of Animatii buffalo. -Piercing attacks capable of penetrating armor, such as a crossbow bolt, count as [2] slashing strikes.
-Every [2] slashing strikes is to be considered the equivalent of [1] blunt strike. Meaning one may destroy a combat pet's limb by harshly striking it twice with a greatsword, and once with a hammer.
-The destruction of the pet's head prior to its bleeding out results in its loss of intelligence, awareness and combat capability, due to its loss of intelligence and sensory modules.
-Destruction of its Geartheart results in instant death.